Biomedical Scientist

Detailed job description

and main responsibilities

To work together with the Critical Care follow up and rehabilitation team to establish a Critical

Care specific psychology service for patients, relatives and staff.

· To undertake psychological assessment, and provide highly specialised, evidence based

psychological interventions in individual, family or group format

· To work alongside the critical care follow up nurses and consultants and to attend follow up

clinics; to help identify patients and relatives that may benefit from psychological interventions

and to provide these in separate psychology clinics

· To identify and treat inpatients in critical care that may benefit from acute psychological

interventions, e.g. anxiety, panic attacks, depression, intermittent hallucinations

· To work closely with the critical care multi-disciplinary team, give advice and help guide

patients’ recovery and rehabilitation

· To work closely with and support all members of staff in the Critical Care Units; this includes

holding debrief sessions after potentially traumatic events, wellbeing sessions and providing

psychological interventions for groups and individuals

· To provide teaching to non-psychologist members of staff

· To help create individual de-escalation plans for inpatients whose behaviour is challenging for

staff

· To liaise with other critical care psychologists locally, regionally and nationally for professional

development and to help develop the service further

· To provide supervision for less experienced psychologists where appropriate, including

undergraduate and postgraduate psychology students during their placement, assistant and trainee psychologists, and qualified psychologist · To collect data and organise feedback to evaluate and audit the psychology service · To contribute to research

Person specification

Technical Skills and Competencies

Essential criteria

Ability to identify and pioritise appropriate areas for service improvement and to design, plan and delver these improvements

Desirable criteria

Ability to manage the delivery of a service or part of a service, balancingthe priorities of quality and resource capacity

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or applied psychology ( or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996)

Desirable criteria

Pre or post-qualification training and qualifications in leadership, teaching, clinical supervision, and/or research.

Experience

Essential criteria

Application of Specialist psychological therapies relevant to the clinical service

Desirable criteria

Experience of leading or participating in regular reflective practice.

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